DEAD MAN WALKING Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a Catholic nun who exemplifies the compassion of Jesus in her work with death row prisoners. While teaching in a Louisiana ghetto, she begins corresponding with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), who has been sentenced to death for the brutal murders of two teenage lovers. ... A truly emotional and heart wrenching film, Dead Man Walking was an excellent movie because it portrayed the feelings of both the families of the victims and the murderer himself. ... Dead Man Walking also showed how the death p...

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• Grade Level: High School

Later in the play, however, specifically in II, i, Macbeth begins to show some signs of concern for the fate of his soul after he commits the murder: " Hear not my steps, which (way they) walk, for fear/They very stones prate of my whereabouts/And take the present horror from the time,/Which now suits with it. ... Macbeth, a few lines later, is also aware of his forthcoming demise: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more. ... Perhaps Macbeth was correct when he said, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor play...

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Here Tiresias reveals that Oedipus and his mother live in sin and has no idea that he has been walking his fateful path despite doing everything he can to avoid it. ... He begins to doubt the power of Gods in foreseeing one's future. ...

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